Surely it was the Goddess Ishtar after She died and returned from Hell? Sumerian mythology: that's Old School right there.

"If thou openest not the gate to let me enter,I will break the door, I will wrench the lock,I will smash the door-posts, I will force the doors.I will bring up the dead to eat the living.And the dead will outnumber the living."

"NEVAR!" says Charlie, and proceeds to smash Milo until Milo's beard regrew. Unfortunately, his beard could not do anything more, as Milo already died, shocked that someone would not want to speak with him. -- page 363 of the TZH comic (?)